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Animals of Laos Day leads today's complete edition for United States.
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You encounter Asian elephants, gibbons, and tigers in Laos's tropical forests and protected areas. You find that dogs, cats, and fighting fish are the most popular pets among Laotian families. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.
On June 29, 1958, Congress passed the Alaska Statehood Act. Alaska became the 49th state on January 3, 1959. The purchase from Russia in 1867 cost $7.2 million, which works out to about 2 cents an acre. Secretary of State William Seward was mocked for the purchase, called "Seward's Folly" and "Seward's Icebox." The largest state in the union, with more coastline than the rest of the states combined, was acquired for less than the cost of a single Manhattan office building.